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title: There is a power, a nameless power, in the possession of favor from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a power, a nameless power, in the possession of favor from above, the favor of Providence, and this favor little George had. Who acts: power, this, little George. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 40

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There is a power, a nameless power, in the possession of favor from above, the favor of Providence, and this favor little George had.

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**Who acts:** power, this, little George · **What happens:** be, favor, have, possess · **To what, where:** favor, Providence

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, this, little George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:148:40
# text = There is a power, a nameless power, in the possession of favor from above, the favor of Providence, and this favor little George had.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nameless	nameless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	above	above	ADV	RB	_	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Providence	Providence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	favor	favor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a power and a nameless power |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **favor** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | little George |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **possess** |  |  | favor |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **favor** |  |  | Providence |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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